User: fok

Re:It's "GNU/Linux 2.6"

On: Linus says 2.6 kernel will be out by June 2003

No.. this is just the kernel... and it is called linux

Selection process?

On: Are Colleges Helping to Maintain the Microsoft Monopoly?

If one is not able to use these MS products while taking a CS degree, then it is clear that one's choice for what to do in college is obviously wrong...

I've seen this happening

Re:I can�t do it

On: Windows 2000, Samba, and Cancelling Print Jobs?

I dont get it... if this is offtopic, the entire questions/posts are also offtopic...
Still... I dont get it...

I can�t do it

On: Windows 2000, Samba, and Cancelling Print Jobs?

Well, I have an old 486 as printer server that gets uernames from the main NT file server and can't cancel the print jobs from the Win98 workstations, so I use Webmin for a user-frendly interface to cancel and manage the jobs... just for admins of course.

New CPUs don't help...

On: Chip Makers Selling Fewer High-End CPUs

I do EVERYTHING w/ my Athlon 1.4MHz/256MbRAM, including perfect 1024x768 UT2K3. I can even read /. !!! Why upgrade now?
I'll just wait 'till 4GHz Hammers for $100 hit Brazil!

Re:about 7 million - maybe

On: Costs Associated with the Storage of Terabytes?

but whats the fun on that?

Two cases...

On: If You Didn't Need Money, What Would You Do?

There are two different situatins here:

Do I have a shitload of money
or

Do I have just enough to keep on a good life

Eventually...

On: Microsoft Sinks Teeth Into New Orleans

eventually has to buy the software... nice...

Alien signal, anyone?

On: Delivering an Earth-Shattering Discovery?

For example, could you bounce an electromagnetic signal describing the discovery off a celestial body several light-years away?

It would be nice to bounce a fake "alien signal" off the planet just do screw up with the guys at the SETI program in the near future!

I took it off...

On: Death to the 3.5" Floppy?

my machine when it broke.
Never replaced it though... Never needed it anyway... ;D

Re:Remember ARC vs. PKZIP

On: Suddenly a JPEG Patent and Licensing Fee

Will this then be a chance for the rise of PNG?
Or make MS implement a better support for PNG format in Internet Explorer...?

You don't need RPM...

On: Is RPM Doomed?

.. To mess up your box. Even doing things from source can gat you in trouble.
RPM just speeds up the process! ;D

Woud this be...

On: Carbon Sequestration

The Ultimate Watercooler?

With new standards coming out...

On: Rolling Your Own USB Devices?

I think the Linux Cofee How-To needs some updates!

It depends...

On: Do BIOS Upgrades Really Matter?

What you will get from it.
In my case, I've got 48bit HD & AthlonXP support

Re:Yet another way of using FUD.

On: MS Cites National Security to Justify Closed Source

I don't have any "boys fighting out there", so, I use free software...

Re:I hate plums, how about a sugar cube instead?

On: Slashdot Subscription Update

You're missing the point... There is people that hate ads, and for those people there is this subscription thingy... get it?

I am using it right now!

On: Firebird Goes Gold

Nice compatibility with Interbase 6.01!

You could do this:

On: Cable Chaos

Tie up all the cables. But when moving things arround, be sure to have a knife arroun or something...

I have some...

On: 30-pin SIMMs

... on my key ring! (4Mb)

I give them 1h 30 min...

On: Cactus Data Shield Tries Again

...to have a copy-protected CD on the Net (including buying the CD) with 192kbps quality...

For me it was like

On: Non-Traditional Career Routes?

mechanical eng. -> supermarket -> sysadmin that's no joke...

Re:complain if you will...

On: Microsoft to Focus on Security

what I don't conform with is the constant reboots as a OS feature.

Re:If The RIAA Can ...

On: Is CD Copy Protection Illegal?

...but why should I give a portion of blank medias if Im burning DATA cds?

Re:Cyber-Terrorist Training Tool?

On: Uplink

this sounds like paranoia to me... but I dont blame you...